Hardin and LaRue counties are under an excessive heat warning remains in effect until 10 p.m. today according to the National Weather Service.

Temperatures today and into the evening, outside of any thunderstorm activity, will range between 95 and 100 degrees. These temperatures combined with dew points in the middle 70s to near 80 will produce heat index values ranging from 105 to 115 degrees or higher.

Since corn is in season now, I thought I would share my favorite corn recipes with you. I think all these have been printed in this column at some time or another; they’re all great.

The Puffy Corn Fritters recipe is from Frankie Bell of Hodgenville; her mother used to make the corn fritters when Frankie was a child. Warren Wheat was editor of The News-Enterprise when I ran this recipe and he was wild about these because he ate them as a child, too.

A controversial plan to restrict median access on a 10-mile stretch of U.S. 31W — the “Dixie” — connecting Elizabethtown and Radcliff suffered another blow Monday from city officials critical of the design.

State officials presented the plan to Radcliff City Council and were met with criticism as city leaders said the plan could cause more crashes and would restrict access for emergency responders.

An Elizabethtown man accused of killing his 36-year-old neighbor in her home will be arraigned in circuit court today.

According to Kentucky State Police, Joshua Hines, 24, shot Toni Ballard on April 7 in her home on Bardstown Road.

Hines placed the 911 call himself and confessed to the shooting, KSP Det. Jason Propes said at a probable cause hearing in April. Hines also told police a revolver found in his home was the weapon used in the shooting.